21/04/1983 Top of the Pops

Hello and welcome to Top Of The Pops.

And we've got some great stuff for you tonight.

The Human League, Spandau Ballet and the Thompson Twins.

Absolutely right. But first, here's Culture Club and my tip for next week's number one,

Church Of The Poison Mind.

APPLAUSE

# Desolate loving in your eyes

# You used to made my life so sweet

# Step out like a God found child

# I saw your eyes across the street

# Who would be the fool to take you?

# Be more than just kind

# Step into a life of maybe

# Love is hard to find in the church of the poison mind

# In the church of the poison mind

# In the church of the poison mind

-# In the church of the poison mind

-In the church of the poison mind

# In the church of the poison mind

# In the church of the poison

# Watch me clinging to the beat

# I had to fight to make it mine

# That religion you could sink it neat

# Just move your feet and you'll be fine

# Who would be the fool to maybe

# Trick a kiss in time?

# Who am I to say that's crazy?

# Love will make you blind in the church of the poison mind

# In the church of the poison mind

-# In the church of the poison mind

-In the church of the poison mind

-# In the church of the poison mind

-In the church of the poison mind

# In the church of the poison mind

# Ba-ba-ba-ba

# Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba

# Ba-ba-ba

# Ba-aa-aa-aa, ba-aa-aa-aa-aa...

# Desolate loving in your eyes

# You used to make my life so sweet

# Step out like a God found child

# I saw your eyes across the street

# Who would be the fool to take you?

# Be more than just kind

# Step into a life of maybe

# Love is hard to find in the church of poison mind

-# In the church of the poison mind

-In the church of the poison mind

-# In the church of the poison mind

-In the church of the poison mind

-# In the church of the poison mind

-In the church of the poison mind

# In the church of the poison mind... #

Culture Club, the Church Of The Poison Mind,

including Judd Lander on harmonica there.

There's a new entry at number 16 in the charts this week.

It comes from the Human League.

On Top Of The Pops tonight, their new video of Fascination.

APPLAUSE

# If it seems a little time is needed

# Decisions to be made

# Hey, hey, hey, hey

# The good advice of friends unheeded

# The best of plans mislaid

# Just looking for a new direction

-# In an old familiar way

-Hey-hey-hey-hey

# The forming of a new connection

# To study or to play

# And so the conversation turned

# Until the sun went down

# And many fantasies were learned

# On that day

# Keep feeling fascination

# Passion burning Love so strong

# Keep feeling fascination

# Looking, learning Moving on

# Well, the truth may need some rearranging

# Stories to be told

# Hey-hey-hey-hey

# And plain to see the facts are changing

# No meaning left to hold

# And so the conversation turned

# Until the sun went down

# And many fantasies were learned

# On that day

# Keep feeling fascination

# Passion burning Love so strong

# Keep feeling fascination

# Looking, learning Moving on. #

APPLAUSE

Jonathan King was responsible for this next one when he first

brought it over to Top Of The Pops and it's one of the highest

positions a Frenchman's ever got to. He's at number four.

It's FR David and Words.

# Words

# Don't come easy to me

# How can I find a way

# To make you see I love you?

# Words don't come easy

# Words

# Don't come easy to me

# This is the only way

# For me to say I love you

# Words don't come easy

# Well, I'm just a music man

# Melodies, so far my best friend

# But my words are coming out wrong

# Girl, I reveal my heart to you

# And hope that you believe it's true

# Cos words

# Don't come easy to me

# How can I find a way

# To make you see I love you?

# Words don't come easy

# This is just a simple song

# That I've made for you on my own

# There's no hidden meaning, you know, when I

# When I say I love you, honey

# Please believe I really do cos

# Words

# Don't come easy to me

# How can I find a way

# To make you see I love you?

# Words don't come easy

# It isn't easy

# Words don't come easy

# Words

# Don't come easy to me

# How can I find a way

# To make you see I love you?

# Words don't come easy

# Don't come easy to me

# This is the only way

# For me to say I love you

# Words don't come easy

# Words don't come easy. #

Words from a man of letters, that's FR David at number four.

And from France we're going over to America.

At number 18 this week it's Twisted Sister - I am, I'm Me.

APPLAUSE

# I am, I'm me

# Who are you to look down

# At what I believe?

# I'm on to your thinking

# And how you deceive

# Well, you can't abuse me

# I won't stand no more

# Yes, I know the reasons

# Yes, I know the score

# I am and I'll be

# I will, you'll see

# I am and I'll be

# I am, I'm me

# How I tried to please you

# Live the way you said

# Do the things that you do

# Like the living dead

# Then the truth it hit me

# Got me off my knees

# It's my life I'm living

# I'll live as I please

# I am and I'll be

# I will, you'll see

# I am and I'll be

# I am, I'm me

# Now's the time to stand tall

# Start your life anew

# Freedom lies in your heart

# Now's the time for you

# I am and I'll be

# I will, you'll see

# I am and I'll be

# I am, I'm me

# I am, I'm me

# I am, I'm me

# I am, I'm me

# I am, I'm me

# I'm me, I'm me

# Me, me, me, me, me, me

# I am, I'm me

# I am, I'm me

# Wow! #

But would you let your son go out with them?

That's Twisted Sister and I am, I'm me.

Staying with American music, here's a record that really scooped

the Grammys in the Grammy Awards this year. This is Rosanna - Toto.

# All I want to do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes

# Rosanna, Rosanna

# Never thought that a girl like you could ever care for me

# Rosanna

# All I want to do in the middle of the evening is hold you tight

# Rosanna, Rosanna

# I didn't know you were looking for more than I could ever be

# Not quite a year since she went away

# Rosanna, yeah

# Now she's gone and I have to say

# Meet you all the way

# Meet you all the way

# Rosanna, yeah

# Meet you all the way

# Meet you all the way

# Rosanna, yeah

# I can see your face still shining through the window on the other side

# Rosanna, Rosanna

# I didn't know that a girl like you could make me feel so sad

# Rosanna

# All I want to tell you is now you'll never ever have to compromise

# Rosanna, Rosanna

# I never thought that losing you could ever hurt so bad

# Not quite a year since she went away

# Rosanna, yeah

# Now she's gone and I have to stay

# Meet you all the way

# Meet you all the way

# Rosanna, yeah

# Meet you all the way

# Meet you all the way

# Rosanna, yeah... #

APPLAUSE

Next, one of my favourite bands and they've got an album out

in a couple of weeks' time, watch out for that,

it's called The Luxury Gap.

But here they are now, it's Heaven 17 and Temptation.

# I've never been closer

# I've tried to understand

# That certain feeling

# Carved by another's hand, no

# But it's too late to hesitate

# We can't keep on living like this

# Leave no track

# Don't look back

# All I desire

# Temptation

# Keep climbing higher and higher

# Temptation

# Adorable creatures

# Temptation

# With unacceptable features

# Temptation

# Trouble is coming

# Temptation

# It's just the high cost of loving

# Temptation

# You can take it or leave it

# Temptation

# But you'd better believe it

# You've got to make me an offer

# That cannot be ignored

# Let's head for home now

# Everything I have is yours

# Step by step and day by day

# Every second counts I can't break away

# Leave no trace

# Hide your face

# All I desire

# Temptation

# Keep climbing higher and higher

# Temptation

# You can take it or leave it

# Temptation

# But you'd better believe it

# Oo-oo-oo-ooh

# Step by step and day by day

# Every second counts I can't break away

# Keep us from temptation

# Keep us from temptation

# Keep us from temptation

# Lead us not into temptation

# No!

# Trying to find it

# Temptation

# You've got to get up behind it

# Temptation

# Put your dime in the hot slot

# Temptation

# But it's a million-to-one shot

# Temptation

# You think that you're right now

# Temptation

# You're going to face it tonight now

# Temptation

# Oh! Give me a breakdown

# Temptation

# Because it's time for a shakedown

# Temptation

# Temptation

# Temptation

# Temptation

# Temptation

# Temptation

# Temptation

# Temptation. #

Marvellous stuff.

Incidentally, Glenn Gregory wants to say hello to his nan.

Oh, that's nice. What a family show this is.

Let's have a look at the charts now, 30 to 22.

It's a new entry at number 30 for Overkill from Men At Work.

New entry at 29 too. Last Film from Kissing The Pink.

Iron Maiden, brand-new at 28 and Flight Of Icarus.

A Total Eclipse Of The Heart for Bonnie Tyler at 27.

Brand-new at 26, She's In Parties, Bauhaus.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) from Eurythmics, that's number 25.

New at 24, Friday Night from the Kids From Fame.

The Style Council, Speak Like A Child, at 23.

At 22, the Celtic Soul Brothers from Dexys Midnight Runners.

At number 21, it's the Thompson Twins.

Here's the video of their new hit single, We Are Detective.

The Thompson Twins.

# Somebody's watching me

# And now I'm nervous and I shouldn't be

# Somebody's got their eye on me

# Perhaps I should invite him up for tea?

# We saw him smoking by the newspaper stand

# There's something odd about his gloved left hand

# Saw him again inside the old cafe

# He makes us tense We wish he'd go away

ALL: # We are detective

# We are select

# We are detective

# Come to collect

# Somebody's after me

# He left his footprints by the garden tree

# Last night when I got home

# I got the feeling I was not alone

# Someone is on our tail

# We think they're opening up our morning mail

# And now each time the telephone rings

# We think of frightening things

# We are detective

# We are select

# We are detective

# Come to collect

# We dress up in disguise

# To get away from all those prying eyes

# Our friends all think we're mad

# But we know better cos the spy is bad

# We are detective

# We are select

# We are detective

# Come to collect

# We are detective

# We are select... #

CHEERING

That's the Thompson Twins, currently on tour in America,

about to tour this country.

Shall we go back to the charts? Let's start at number 20.

At number 20, Sunfire - Young Free And Single.

It's a new entry at number 19 for Toto and Rosanna.

Up to number 18, I Am (I'm Me), Twisted Sister.

Nick Heyward is at number 17, Whistle Down The Wind.

Straight in to number 16, Human League, Fascination.

Big Country, Fields Of Fire at number 15.

Cliff Richard, he's straight in at number 14 with True Love Ways.

Kenny Everett is at number 13 with Snot Rap.

Up for New Order to number 12, Blue Monday.

At number 11, Is There Something I Should Know?

from Duran Duran.

And straight in at number 10, the highest new entry this week,

it's Spandau Ballet. Here's True!

CHEERING

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# So true

# Funny how it seems

# Always in time

# But never in line for dreams

# Head over heels when toe to toe

# This is the sound of my soul

# This is the sound

# I bought a ticket to the world

# But now I've come back again

# Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

# Oh I want the truth to be said

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# I know this much is true

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# I know this much is true

# With a thrill in my head

# And a pill on my tongue

# Dissolve the nerves

# That have just begun

# Listening to Marvin

# All night long

# This is the sound of my soul

# This is the sound

# Always slipping from my hands

# Sand's a time of its own

# Take your seaside arms and write the next line

# Oh, I want the truth to be known

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# I know this much is true

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# I know this much is true

# I bought a ticket to the world

# But now I've come back again

# Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

# Oh, I want the truth to be said

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# I know this much is true

# Huh huh huh hu-uh huh

# I know this much is true

# This much is true

# This much is true

# This much is true

# I know, I know, I know this much is true

# This much is true

# This much is true

# This much is true

# This much is true... #

CHEERING

I think that's the best thing that Gary Kemp has ever written.

That's Spandau Ballet and True at number 10.

I'm going to see them in Manchester on Sunday.

It's back to the charts.

At number 9, The House That Jack Built

from Tracie.

Kajagoogoo, Ooh To Be Ah, that's number 8 this week.

At number 7, Boxerbeat from JoBoxers.

At number 6, Love Is A Stranger, Eurythmics.

Tracey Ullman is at number 5 with Breakaway.

Words at number 4 from FR David.

Beat It, says Michael Jackson. He's at number 3.

At number 2, Church Of The Poison Mind,

Culture Club.

For the third week at number 1, it's David Bowie and Let's Dance.

# Let's dance

# Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

# Let's dance

# To the song they're playin' on the radio

# Let's sway

# While colour lights up your face

# Let's sway

# Sway through the crowd to an empty space

# If you say run

# I'll run with you

# If you say hide

# We'll hide

# Because my love for you

# Would break my heart in two

# If you should fall

# Into my arms

# And tremble like a flower

# Let's dance

# Let's dance

# For fear your grace should fall

# Let's dance

# For fear tonight is all

# Let's sway

# You could look into my eyes

# Let's sway

# Under the moonlight

# This serious moonlight

# And if you say run

# I'll run with you

# And if you say hide

# We'll hide

# Because my love for you

# Would break my heart in two

# If you should fall

# Into my arms

# And tremble like a flower

# Let's dance

# Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

# Let's dance... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I wonder whether that'll be number 1 next week.

Could it be Culture Club or could it be Spandau Ballet?

It's a live show next Thursday with David Jensen and John Peel.

We'll both be on the radio on Saturday.

Meanwhile, ta-ra. Here's Michael Jackson.

Good night.

# They told him, don't you ever come around here

# Don't want to see your face You better disappear

# The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear

# So beat it

# Just beat it

# You better run You better do what you can

# Don't want to see no blood Don't be a macho man

# You want to be tough Better do what you can

# So beat it

# But you want to be bad

-# Just beat it

-Beat it

-# Beat it

-Beat it

# No-one wants to be defeated

# Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

# It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

-# Just beat it

-Beat it

-# Just beat it

-Beat it

-# Just beat it

-Beat it

-# Just beat it

-Beat it

# They're out to get you Better leave while you can

# Don't want to be a boy You want to be a man

# You want to stay alive Better do what you can

# So beat it

# Just beat it

# You have to show them that you're really not scared

# You're playin' with your life This ain't no truth or dare

# They'll kick you then they beat you

# Then they'll tell you it's fair

# So beat it

# But you want to be bad

-# Just beat it

-Beat it

-# Beat it

-Beat it

# No-one wants to be defeated

# Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

# It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

-# Just beat it

-Beat it

-# Beat it

-Beat it

# No-one wants to be defeated

# Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

# It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

# Just beat it

# Beat it... #